effects of four pesticides (imidacloprid, dichlorvos, pymetrozine and abamectin) were evaluated on life table parameters of orius albidipennis (reuter). pesticides were used at the concentrations recommended by the manufacturers. the bioassays were carried out using drum-cell method, in a growth chamber at 27 â± 1âºc, r.h. of 65 â± 5% and 16 h photo phase. the net reproductive rate (r0) value f...

how to cite this article: hashemiaghdam a, sharifi a, miri m, tafakhori a. seizure-control effect of levatiracetam on juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and other epileptic syndromes: literature review of recent studies. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):1-8. abstract objective various epileptic syndromes may present in adolescence and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (jme) is known to be the most comm...

background: when family planning programmes offer a wide variety of contraceptives, contraceptive prevalence would be higher overall. objective: to determine the acceptability of cyclofem© and to evaluate its side effects and continuation rate in iran. materials and methods: an introductory study of cyclofem© was conducted in seven districts of kerman province, the largest province of iran, in ...

introduction:  no modality has been identified as the treatment of chice for treating common warts. cryothearpy and pulsed-dye laser (pdl) are among common modalities for treating these lesions. the aim of this study was to compare pulsed dye laser with cryotherapy in terms of efficacy and complications. methods:  of a total of 46 patients enrolled in this study, 7 patients withdrew the study, ...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions are one of the most common causes of death in industrialized Western countries. Nowadays, empirical data from clinical studies for the approval and monitoring of drugs and molecular databases is available. METHODS The integration of database information is a promising method for providing well-based knowledge to avoid adverse drug reactions. This paper presen...

abstract background ketofol is usually using as a sedative drug during painful procedures now. that provides sedation, analgesia and rapid recovery. the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy, respiratory and hemodynamic profiles, and side effects of two various combination of ketamine and propofol in patients undergoing bone marrow aspiration (bma) and lumbar puncture (lp). materials an...

OBJECTIVE To extract physician-asserted drug side effects from electronic medical record clinical narratives. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pattern matching rules were manually developed through examining keywords and expression patterns of side effects to discover an individual side effect and causative drug relationship. A combination of machine learning (C4.5) using side effect keyword features an...

In elderly patients, serotonin reuptake inhibitors seem to be safer and better tolerated than tricyclic antidepressants. The choice should be made on the basis of side effect profile and drug interactions. URRENT ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS are effective and generally well tolerated, but noncompliance remains worrisome. Up to 70% of patients taking antidepressants are noncompliant,1,2 as a result of e...